Clean Water Crisis for Human

Do you know that ... 

1. "884 million people in the world lack access to safe water supplies.

1. 3.5 million people die each year from water-related disease.

1. Almost 2 in 3 people who need safe drinking water survive on less than $2 a day.

1. In many developing countries, women and girls walk on average over 3.5 miles each day to fetch water. Women often spend more than 15 hours per week gathering water.

1. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease."

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Clean water crisis is a truly serious problem that modern world has to face. The name itself describes the problem: many people around the world do not have access to water, a fundamental element of human needs. According to DrinkingWater, 

"Each person on Earth requires at least 20 to 50 liters of clean, safe water a day for drinking, cooking, and simply keeping themselves clean."

Unprocessed (dirty) water is cleant through sanitation.

However, in some poor areas, the sanitation is not effective or not even available. Those "poor areas" include...

... Somalia, Nigeria, Sudan, and many other African countries. People, especially children and women, in those areas experienced severe diarrhea and even death because there are a lot of bacteria in the water that are not sterile.

What can we do to help? Governments around the world are trying to improve the sanitation systems and make them available for everyone. In small scale, each of us can help alleviating the clean water crisis by saving water:
- Turn tap off while brushing teeth, shaving,...
- Take short shower
- Do not overwater the garden

Deforestation

What is it that destroys human lungs? Smoking. What is it that destroys world lungs? Deforestation. According to LiveScience, deforestation is the "permanent destruction of forests". In other words, deforestation appeals as the form of malicious vapor of nicotine to forests, the world lungs.
1. Where are this vapor going to? Everywhere.

"Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targeted. Countries with significant deforestation currently or in the recent past include Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of Africa, and parts of Eastern Europe"

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2. What are the causes of deforestation? Why are we killing ourselves? AGRICULTURE! Areas of forests have been decreased for farming land and daily consumption of goods (such as paper)

Basically, we are killing ourselves to feed ourselves. Such a paradox! Another cause for deforestation is desertification in which sand blown by wind stops trees from growing and expands desert area. Simply put, desert "eats" forest.

3. Why is deforestation a serious problem? According to LiveScience, there are 5 effects:
Loss of species: Without habitats, animals will go extinct.
Water Cycle Disruption: Without trees holding back water, land will become drier.
Increase in Carbon Emission: Without natural lungs, amount of CO2 increases,
Soil Erosion: Without roots anchoring soil, loss of soil is inevitable.
Degradation of Life Quality: Without trees providing oxygen and holding water, human life will be damaged.

4. What are people doing to help?
Governments are establishing policies to protect the forest.
New farming method is developed to save space - Vertical Farming.
5. What can YOU do to help?
Save paper.

" If every US home replaced just one roll of paper towel with recycled paper towel, we would save 544,000 trees."

" Did you know that recycling one ton of paper saves 20 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, three cubic yards of landfill space, 60 pounds of air pollutants, and saves enough energy to power the average home for six months?"

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Human Trafficking

What is the difference between a person and a box? What is the quality that distinguishes humans from things? CONSCIOUSNESS. Humans have the ability to think and feel. A "thing" that has intelligence and emotion should be appreciated, not sold around like piece of good. In the American Declaration of Independence and Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 3 basic human rights are clearly stated: Liberty, Equality, and Pursuit of Happiness. However, there are devils around the worlds, in the form of humans, reaching their dirty sordid claws to innocent people. Those dirty hands are called HUMAN TRAFFICKING. People, just like you whoever is reading this, are being sold all over the world, like goods.

United Nations provides a closer look at human trafficking:

How is current worldwide situation? According to Combat Human Trafficking...

In 2012, in East Asia, about 1200 cases of Human Trafficking were RECORDED (even more cases were NOT recorded or remained unknown). How ignorant I was! When I was doing ordinary things of an ordinary life, many innocent people around the world was captured, beaten, and treated as sex slaves.
So why are these problems still around even when there are security forces?
Reason #1: Human trafficking is super lucrative.
Reason #2: Criminals are getting stealthier and adapting constantly to the regulation of laws and security.
Reason #3: Human trafficking is international, using the difference in laws as an advantage.
What are the solutions?
Solution #1: Donate to non-profit organizations to free slaves. This solution only works temporarily, and cannot put an end to human trafficking.
Solution #2: Use forces to oppress human trafficking. As mentioned above, criminals always becomes more clever and eventually find a way to hide from laws. Therefore, this solution is not an absolute one.
Solution #3: Educate people. Yes, smart people are harder to be tricked. However, knowledge only is not enough to fight against human trafficking. One still can be kidnapped no matter how smart she is since there is always someone smarter.
What are other solutions? What do I offer solutions to prove they don't work efficiently? I want to stress the point that human trafficking is based on human nature. The ugly truth: Humans are motivated by sex and money. Human trafficking offers both. If human nature doesn't change (which I personally believe is cannot change), human trafficking will still exist, known and unknown. It's all about HUMAN. Period.